With a history spanning more than 600 years, the Xiaoxihu neighborhood boasts a wealth of historical remnants.

He said a really strong push from the central government played a significant role in China's dealing with the remnants of poverty over the past 10 years.

Gao Xiang and his colleagues never pictured coal as a black cloud billowing from smokestacks or a sooty remnant of the Industrial Revolution.

China Construction Bank announced on Tuesday it has set up a 30 billion yuan ($4.14 billion) fund to finance rental housing amid China's efforts to develop its rental housing market, liquidize remnant assets of real estate companies and defuse financial risks in the housing sector.

The bank said by setting up the fund, it will deepen the advancement of its house rental strategy, invest in remnant assets of real estate developers through market-oriented, law-based and professional operations, and strengthen coordination with all parties concerned to increase the supply of long-term and affordable rental homes under a market-based approach.

Tian Guoli, chairman of CCB, said on Tuesday the bank will leverage more social capital to participate in real estate projects, solve the problem with the lack of adequate long-term capital investment in rental housing, help liquidize remnant assets in the housing sector to reduce inventories and lower debt-to-asset ratios, and explore a new pattern of real estate development that focuses on both home purchases and rental.

“We should not only effectively mitigate risks of the housing sector but also grasp the opportunities during the period of an asset price pullback, mobilize the funds of all parties to liquidize remnants assets, and introduce a batch of cost-effective rental homes to the market to meet the housing demand for different groups of people, especially new urban residents,” he said.

"By liquidizing remnant assets, these companies reduced around 20 percent of financing through traditional approaches and saved a total of 500 million yuan in interest (payments)," Zhang said.

Half of the countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, including Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and the Philippines still haven't completely freed themselves from the threat of land mines and explosive remnants of war, said Ma Shengkun, deputy director-general of the arms control department.

The dialogue aims to enhance regional cooperation and resource mobilization in removing land mines and explosive remnants of war.

"Land mines and explosive remnants of war pollute land, endanger the lives of civilians, affect people's normal life and hinder the sustainable development of the regional economy.

He added that in addition to providing funding and equipment, China has helped to train about 600 mine-clearing experts from the ASEAN region who are key in achieving the center's goal of making the ASEAN region free from the risk and impact of mines and explosive remnants of war.

Oum Phumro, deputy director-general of the Cambodian Mine Action Center, said Cambodia is one of the countries worst affected by land mines and explosive remnants of war.

The members spent four years restoring the Chau Say Tevoda Temple from very bad shape with only remnants of the bases, according to Gu.